Our Government and our Laws are beset by two different Enemies, which are sapping its foundations, Indianism, and Jacobinism. In some Cases they act … - Edmund Burke

It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable. They serve equally the first capacities and the lowest; and they are, at least, as useful to the worst men as to the best. Of this stamp is the cant of not man, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.

A História consiste, em sua maior parte, das misérias trazidas ao mundo por orgulho, ambição, avareza, vingança, luxúria, sedição, hipocrisia, zelo desgovernado e toda a linha de apetites desordenados que abalam a vida pública com as mesmas

[...] agitadas tempestades que sacodem
A vida privada, e tornam a existência amarga.

Esses vícios são as causas dessas tempestades. A religião, a moral, as leis, as prerrogativas, os privilégios, as liberdades, os direitos dos homens são os pretextos. Os pretextos sempre aparecem com alguma aparência ilusória de um bem real. Você não preservaria os homens da tirania e da sedição ao extirpar da mente os princípios aos quais estes pretextos fraudulentos se aplicam?

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.